GIVE: LIVE A MORE HONOURABLE LIFE
Acts 20:35 (AMP), “In everything I have pointed out to you (by example) that, by working diligently in this manner we ought to assist the weaker, being mindful of the words of the Lord Jesus , how He himself said it is more blessed (makes one happier and more to be envied) to give than to receive.”
Hmmn… It is more blessed to give than to receive. I love the word of God; it always takes a man beyond common sense into Bible sense that places such a person up for an enviable life of dominion. The Amplified Translation tells us clearly that a giver would have a happier life that receivers will envy.
Giving never reduces a man; instead it sets him up for an increase in the area he is committed to giving. Receiving on the other hand doesn’t result in lasting increase because what you receive will certainly finish some day and there is no extra promise of more. What makes giving more blessed is that it awakens the transfer of creativity into the giver which triggers the ability to reproduce what was given out.
Do you want to be great in life? Then don’t be stingy! Giving is powerful, it terminates lack and scarcity. Proverbs 28:27 says, “He who gives to the poor will not lack.” This is so important because there are many who would say, “I do not give because I do not have enough.” Oh no, the Bible says, when you give, you close the door against scarcity. You cannot and should not wait until you have abundance before you give, you will never have! You don’t get to the top to give, no, you give to get to the top! The bible tells us a group of people who continued to give in spite of their own lack: 2 Corinthians 8:2-3, “…that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality. For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing (to give).”
As you begin to walk in the consciousness of this revelation, I prophesy over you, welcome into a more honorable life of glory and abundance.
FURTHER STUDY: Proverbs 11:24(AMP), "There are those who (generously) scatter abroad, and yet increase more; there are those who withhold more than is fitting or what is justly due but results only in want (poverty).”
CONFESSION: I BOLDLY CONFESS I AM A GIVER THEREFORE I HAVE ABUNDANCE. I LIVE A MORE HONOURABLE LIFE; I AM GENEROUS AND NOT STINGY.
ACTION POINT: Increase your offerings and give it cheerfully.
ONE YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Acts 9 – 10
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